It’s totally off for Orange County, CA. My commute home from work takes 25 mins max and it this site shows 60 minutes+. That would be accurate for the *other* direction. Maybe they’re doing some kind of averaging of the congestion in both directions?

Having lived in DC for a bunch of years, I can assure you, you can barely make it across the 14th St. Bridge in less then 30 minutes during rush hour. (Off rush hour, it is more like 45 seconds.)

Seriously though, last time I was in the DC area, it took me over 15 minutes to go from Slaters Lane to King Street through Old Town Alexandria. A whopping distance of about 2 miles. And, this was not just one single time, it was every day.

It’s about right for commutes within the city judging from my experience, although obviously there are days you’d get stuck in traffic. But you could get places even faster by bike. And sane people would take metro if the destination and origin are both reasonably close to stations.